strength
pronunciation
How to pronounce strength in British English:
UK [streŋθ]
How to pronounce strength in American English:
US [streŋθ]
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- Noun:
- the property of being physically or mentally strong
- capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
- physical energy or intensity
- an asset of special worth or utility
- the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty
- the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)
- capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects
- the condition of financial success
- permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force
Word Origin
- strength
- strength: [OE] Strength is of course closely related to strong. It was formed in prehistoric Germanic (as *stranggithō) from the ancestor of modern English strong. The verb strengthen was coined from it in the 13th century.=> string, strong
- strength (n.)
- Old English strengþu, strengð "bodily power, force, vigor, firmness, fortitude, manhood, violence, moral resistance," from Proto-Germanic *strangitho (cognates: Old High German strengida "strength"), from PIE *strenk- "tight, narrow" (see string (n.)), with Proto-Germanic abstract noun suffix *-itho (see -th (2)). Compare length/long. From the same root as strong,
Example
- 1. That gave me the strength to keep going .
- 2. But china 's real military strength increasingly lies elsewhere .
- 3. This will improve muscle strength and promote weight loss .
- 4. The strength of the recovery has surprised many economists .
- 5. At least the kind of strength that I need .